TSCHE launches online Student Academic Verification Service

PNS|Hyderabad

With an increase in the number of cases of fake student certificates, Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) has launched a website namely Student Academic Verification Service (SAVS).

The primary objective of this service is to provide instant, online and authenticated academic verification of students’ academic awards (certificates). The service is provided in two formats, namely instant and full verification. The instant one is free of cost while the full verification costs Rs 1,500.

The SAVS helps in curbing the menace of fake certificates and to help job providers and job seekers with fast verification and it also helps the higher education institutions or universities (national and international) for easy verification.

Academic verification in simple terms is verifying the certificates of the students. It also helps all government or private recruiting agencies in verification. It is accessible anywhere, anytime in the world. It is the trusted solution for certificate verification, independent of third parties.

Professor R Limbadri, Chairman, Telangana State Council of Higher Education said, “We have been working on this service for five months and this is also because as we visit other countries, we understood the problem of fake certificates and there is a need to address it. As all of us know people keep approaching officials for help with certificates. This service would help check such illegal activities.”

The information on this website is in different languages to create awareness to everybody, including in Telugu, English, Hindi, Urdu.” This website has certificates from 2010 to 2021, mobile access, is user-friendly with the font and system generated. To curtail certain issues, first registration process takes places where a person must register Aadhaar card details and all of them know who is seeking information.

Minister for Education P Sabitha Indra Reddy launched the Student Academic Verification Service (SAVS) and re-designed website of the TSCHE. Dr M Mahender Reddy, Director General of Police, spoke about the importance of the verification system. He advised the authorities of TSCHE to integrate data of all the universities into a single network or database so that periodic data addition becomes automatic.

Vakati Karuna, Secretary of Education, appreciated the efforts of the state council in this big initiative. Prof V Venkata Ramana, Vice-Chairman, TSCHE and Vice-Chancellor I/c RGUKT, spoke about the available modern technological options and requested the universities to embrace them to make the system of verification fast, effective and robust.